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Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

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the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. . . one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art'. . . (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

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Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

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Content is a glimpse.

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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

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